Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Councilors cited legal confusion and broad language as reasons for voting down the plans...
...U.S.A. had "seized" the Shah and is keeping him "under guard." It is necessary to understand the outlook of the persons with whom one wants to negotiate; for the Iranians it is a question of a simple exchange of prisoners. Again, the problem is not whether it was legal to seize the embassy personnel. The recognition that that was not legal is not now an issue; rather, it is concern for the lives of the captives which should inform our response...
...Geneva, for instance, has the facilities for such a procedure and there the Shah would be able to get the kind of medical help his doctors would insist on. The possibility of putting on trial even a head of state would also, in the long run, be a sound legal policy which could make despotism less attractive and be a means of preventing extreme situations of this sort...
Georges Bank may have another natural resource: oil. That has put it at the center of a bitter legal campaign between the U.S. Department of the Interior, which wants to lease drilling rights to private oil companies, and an alliance of fishermen, environmentalists, and the Attorney General of Massachusetts, who fear an oil spill that could devastate the area. Now the pro-oil forces have swept away a major legal roadblock. Barring a successful new attack by the fishing group, the leases will be auctioned off Dec. 18 at a hotel in Providence...
...Senate have already passed by large margins two of the three major Carter recommendations, and will soon begin working out minor differences before sending the legislation to the White House. One act would create an Energy Mobilization Board, which would be able to bulldoze through bureaucratic red tape, legal roadblocks and laws, like the Clean Air Act, that now delay refineries, pipelines and other energy projects. The board would have the power to make some decisions for federal, state or local agencies that were delaying needed developments. The House-passed bill goes further than Carter proposed and gives the board...